Assault on the Constitution

[SuperScout]

The Pelosi House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on a rule change that will give non-members of the House a vote. The change would give the right to vote on the House floor to the five delegates from American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

You've probably already guessed the reason: Four out of the five are Democrats . But here's something you might not have considered: The Pelosi bill also makes a mockery of one person, one vote.

The average congressional district has about 630,000 people. But the Pelosi bill would give an equal vote to American Samoa, which is 91 percent smaller than the average state congressional district.

What's even more outrageous is that American Samoa pays no federal taxes. So what the House voting change amounts to is representation without taxation -- which would be great, if we could all have it. But as it stands, the Pelosi bill makes your vote only 1/10th as important as the people living in tax-free American Samoa. It is the same territory Pelosi tried to exclude from the minimum wage bill that just passed the Pelosi House.

This is profoundly wrong. There are no provisions for the territories' cancelling the votes of states. There is a process for becoming a state, and to have full power in the American system you have to be in a state.

[reconeil]

Hey,...that's what POLITICS is all about.

Neil

[revwardoc]

We started this country based on "No taxation without representation". Now that the Samoans have that representation, its time for the IRS to step in!

[SuperScout]

Originally posted by reconeil Hey,...that's what POLITICS is all about.

Neil

... but what about the "new age of ethics" they promised?

revwardoc: inorder to tax the "outsiders," new laws will have to be passed. Don't hold your breath.

[Robert Ryan]

No taxes paid, no vote.

[reconeil]

Believing: "Democrats/Socialist/Leftists posing as Liberals" display
any semblance of: "ETHICS" towards Republicans/Conservatives
(from Street Sweeper to President) & The American Taxpayer in
general,...is as silly as believing that political-correctness isn't
actually a physical impossibility or an oxymoron.

Doc,
The last time that: "No taxation without Representation" thingy
actually worked well in America, was in Boston and over some
tea,...and only over a lousy 1/2 cent tax on a dollar.

Nowadays, and never mind typically taxing as lordly decreed,
pompous lords don't even ask you if OK giving VAST SUMS
of your Personal Savings for Retirement and/or F.I.C.A. away
TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. Guess that's what's called: "Progress"?

Neil